# Solana Monthly Report: Activity, Fees, Staking and DEXs

> A monthly Solana report: transactions, active wallets, fees and Jito tips, SOL staked and issued, DEX volume, token launches and stablecoins, each one cited.

Markdown copy of https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/solana-monthly-report

**Question:** What happened on Solana this month: how much was it used, what did users pay and where did activity grow or shrink?

- Kind: Report in Voltfin Folio
- Topic: [Solana](https://voltfincrypto.com/topics/solana)
- Chains: Solana
- Status: Planned. The data is not published yet, so this page states no figure; each figure will open its receipt when it is.

Solana moves fast enough that one month can change its picture: a launchpad takes off, priority fees jump with a trading wave, stake shifts between validators. This report records each month in one dated edition, with every figure read from the chain and pinned to a slot: activity, what users paid, staking and issuance, trading and stablecoins.

It is written for people who follow Solana closely and want the month's facts in one place: validators, stakers, app teams, traders and researchers. Each section states the change from last month and names what drove it, and its figures link to the live dashboards and their receipts for anyone who wants to go deeper.

Solana's numbers need care. Vote transactions inflate raw counts, failed transactions still pay fees and bots account for much of the activity, so the report states each definition next to its figure and keeps vote and non-vote activity apart.

## Blueprint

### Solana this month in brief

The month's main changes in activity, fees, staking and trading, and what drove each of them.

Cites: Non-vote transactions; Active wallets; REV.

### Activity and wallets

Non-vote transactions, the failed share, active and new wallets and the programs that used the most compute.

Cites: Failed transaction share; New wallets; Top programs by compute.

### Fees, tips and burn

Base fees, priority fees and Jito tips paid, the part burned and the busiest days and hours for fees.

Cites: Priority fees; Jito tips; SOL burned.

### Staking and issuance

SOL staked at month end, the staking ratio, new issuance, the liquid staking share and how stake moved between validators.

Cites: SOL staked; SOL issued; Liquid staking share.

### DEXs, launches and stablecoins

DEX volume by program and the tokens launched and graduated, with stablecoin supply and transfers on Solana.

Cites: DEX volume; Tokens launched; Stablecoin supply.

### What changed on the network

Client releases, protocol changes adopted and any outages or degraded slots, with the epochs in which they took effect.

## How it will be measured

- Activity counts non-vote transactions, with successful and failed ones apart, and the wallets that signed at least one in the month, from every block in the month's slots.
- Fees are read per transaction as base and priority fees, Jito tips from transfers to Jito's tip accounts and the burn as half of base fees.
- Staking figures come from stake accounts at the month's last epoch boundary, and issuance from the epoch reward records inside the month.
- DEX volume and launches come from decoded swap and launchpad program instructions; stablecoin supply is each mint's supply at the month's last slot.

## Data it needs

- `chain_activity_daily` (to build): Transactions, active sending addresses, new addresses, contracts created and gas used on each chain per day, counted from blocks and transactions.
- `chain_fees_daily` (to build): Fees paid per chain per day in the native token: base fee and priority fee percentiles, total fees, and the share burned where the chain burns fees.
- `staking_networks_daily` (to build): Staked supply, staking ratio, validators and nominal rewards per proof-of-stake network per day.
- `dex_swaps_daily` (to build): Swap counts and volume per DEX, pool and chain per day, decoded from Swap events, valued with stablecoin legs and oracle prices.
- `token_launches_daily` (to build): New tokens deployed per chain and launchpad per day, how many reached a DEX pool, and how many were abandoned.
- `stablecoin_flows_daily` (to build): Stablecoin mints, burns, transfer volume and active addresses per stablecoin and chain per day.
- Source: Every Solana block in the month: transactions, signers, fees, compute units and status
- Source: SOL transfers to Jito's tip accounts
- Source: Stake accounts and epoch reward records at epoch boundaries
- Source: Decoded swap and launchpad program instructions
- Source: Stablecoin mint supply at the month's last slot

## Questions

### When is each edition published?

Shortly after each month ends in UTC, once its last slots are finalized and the epoch data is complete. Every figure is pinned to a slot before the publication date, so later activity always appears in the next edition.

### Why separate vote and non-vote transactions?

Validators send vote transactions to take part in consensus, and they make up a large part of all Solana transactions. They say little about how people use the chain, so the report measures user activity from non-vote transactions and shows votes apart.

### Why count failed transactions?

Failed transactions still use block space and pay fees, and many come from bots racing for the same trade, where most attempts lose. The report gives the failed share each month because it explains part of the gap between transactions and real use.

### How does the report treat memecoin activity?

Launchpad activity is counted like any other: tokens launched, those that reached a DEX and their trading volume. It has its own section, so a launch wave shows up as a cause when activity or fees jump.

### How does this differ from the Solana vs Ethereum report?

That report compares the two chains on matched definitions. This one goes deeper into Solana alone, including staking, launches and stablecoins, and both use the same underlying reads.

## Glossary

- **Epoch**: A run of slots on Solana, about two days long, at whose boundary stake changes take effect and rewards are paid.
- **Non-vote transaction**: Any Solana transaction other than validators' consensus votes; the usual measure of user activity.
- **Stake account**: An account that holds delegated SOL and points it at a validator, earning that validator's rewards minus its commission.

## Related apps

- [Solana Network Stats: TPS, Fees and Active Wallets](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/solana-network-stats)
- [Solana REV: Base Fees, Priority Fees and Jito Tips](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/solana-rev-jito-tips)
- [Solana vs Ethereum: Fees, Activity and Revenue](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/solana-vs-ethereum)
- [Stablecoins on Solana: Supply by Coin](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/stablecoins-on-solana)
- [Pump.fun Token Launches and Graduations per Day](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/pump-fun-token-launches)
- [Solana Staking Yield (APY) and SOL Staked](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/solana-staking-yield)

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